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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-justice-scotland-act-2016/section-5",
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  "legislation": "asp/2016/10",
  "legislation_title": "Community Justice (Scotland) Act 2016",
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  "path": "section/5",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": "General powers",
  "text": "Community Justice Scotland may do anything which appears to it—\n(a) to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of, or in connection with, the exercise of its functions,\n(b) to be otherwise conducive to the exercise of its functions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "text": "S. 5 in force at 1.4.2017 by S.S.I. 2017/33, reg. 2(3)"
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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